DAVID FALCONER

Sacramento County

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DAVID FALCONER

DAVID FALCONER. Known as one of the most reliable contractors and builders of Sacramento, David Falconer enjoys a profitable patronage in this city, where he has been located since 1877. Inheriting from sturdy Scotch ancestors the characteristics which have distinguished his career, he was born in Scotland in 1851, and in his native country spent the years of his boyhood. He received a limited education during the six years in which he attended the common schools, entering at the age of seven years and leaving at thirteen. In 1873 he emigrated to the United States, and from New York City went direct to Cleveland, Ohio. He remained in that location until 1877, when he came to Sacramento and has since made this place his home. As a contractor and builder he has erected many of the finest residences in this city, besides various school houses, churches, theatres, bridges and public works. During the busy season he employs quite a force of men. Mr. Falconer is not only a practical business man, but a skilled workman, quick of thought and action, faithful, honest and reliable, and a man whose integrity is never called in question. He takes an active interest in all public matters and great pride in the city of his home.

Mr. Falconer’s home is at No. 811 Seventh street, Sacramento. In 1882 he married Daisy Melvin, a native of New York. Fraternally he is identified with the Knights of Pythias. Mr. Falconer is a self-educated man, and being an extensive reader is well acquainted on subjects in general and is a lover of all good books. He is a man of strong convictions and is not easily swerved from a point he thinks right, and although conservative is still progressive and public spirited.

Transcribed 11-1-07 Marilyn R. Pankey.

Source: “History of the State of California and Biographical Record of the Sacramento Valley, California” by J. M. Guinn. Page 1062. Chapman Publishing Co., Chicago 1906.